Omg!!!!

I was just shopping ebay; turns out, my man is watching an auction for an Engagement Ring!!!!
I have been waiting him out; we've been together almost 6 years now :D
Now I just hope it's for me.. lol.. just kidding; I know it would be. I ain't letting on that I saw it though.

If you're married/engaged; how did your honey propose to you?

WOW!!! Thats exciting!!! Congrats....hopefully!!!!!:oops:

Here's how Mike proposed to me....

We were on vacation in Myrtle Beach S.C. with my family. One day we all went out to sit on the beach...well everyone but my hubby and brother. About a half an hour later, they both come meet us.

A few minutes go by and everyone is yelling...."OMG SUSAN LOOK!!!"

He had gotten one of those airplanes to pull a sign that said "Susan I love you, Will you marry me? Mike." :D :eek:

Susan... that's SO SWEET!!! Did you completelly loose it?

AAAGGHHH!!!!!!! You PEEKED!?!?!?!!? lmao! That's awsome girl!

Rob & I were swiming in a river.... Go figure? But, YOU WILL LOVE THIS!....
We got married in the horse barn! It was AWSOME! I'll try and dig some pix. out after work! CONGRATS!!!!!! :D

I think I was mostly in shock!!! I really didn't expect that. Everyone on the beach were going CRAZY!! I think I ended up showing my ring to EVERYONE that was around us!!! I wish I had pics to post. My brother recorded it, and we took pics with a disposable camera. But the pics didn't turn out too well.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I was just shopping ebay; turns out, my man is watching an auction for an Engagement Ring!!!!
I have been waiting him out; we've been together almost 6 years now :D
Now I just hope it's for me.. lol.. just kidding; I know it would be. I ain't letting on that I saw it though.

If you're married/engaged; how did your honey propose to you?

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aww~ now you have the fun time of waiting for the ring, and how he'll surprise you.

Wow, I don't know what to say.....Congrats-to-be? Future congrats? lol

My husband did the proposal a little backwards....a month before the wedding we had been planning for almost 2 years!
We were at the Olive Garden, it was Valentine's day. Our waitress was handing out cheesy little Valentine cards to the couples, so I have ours in our wedding album.

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Wow, I don't know what to say.....Congrats-to-be? Future congrats? lol

My husband did the proposal a little backwards....a month before the wedding we had been planning for almost 2 years!
We were at the Olive Garden, it was Valentine's day. Our waitress was handing out cheesy little Valentine cards to the couples, so I have ours in our wedding album.

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Ha, very suave of him. Tony told me early on "im not... ugh... suave or.. 'smooth' ... so dont get too excited" lol.

that's cute about the valentines- im a goober for sappy stuff like that..

Ok so heres how I dropped the bomb. I had taken a black pearl necklace to the jewler to be fixed (for the second time) while I was there I saw the ring. It was her to the tee. So later the next week I went to pick up the necklace and the ring. We got home from shopping and she was putting away the food when

ME: Hey I got your Pearls back today!
Her: Oh great!
Me: yea look this is the second time I have had to have those fixed. You can only have them if you do me a huge favor!
Her: yea I know babe be more careful with them.
Me: No [hits one knee] marry me.
Her: your f'ing kidding me.
Me: not really the answer I was hoping for but is that a yes?
Her: of course!!!!

Mine wasn't all that great but it worked LOL. This is going to sound really bad of me but it started out as me not knowing what to get the girl for christmas. We had been dating I think around 2-3 years and she was still going to college in another state at the time. Anyway I knew she was the one from the beginning and that I would ask her to marry me. So she's a horse girl and isn't into jewelry all that much or "fluffy" stuff. I think about asking her and talk to my best buddy at the time...he also knew there would be no one more perfect so he encourages me to go ahead. I ended up buying the ring and on Christmas morning in my crappy old town house appartment...after not sleeping much of the night I asked her to close her eyes. Shaking like a leaf I get the box out of its hiding place and as I'm struggling to get the words out she opens her eyes and gasps and starts shaking a little herself and throws her arms around me. YES!! It was a good xmas, my Aunt with the same name only spelled differently was also asked to be married...that was to funny.

So I got off the hook for xmas that year LOL...however it has made the last 5yrs or so of gifts just as difficult to find for her! We have been married 4yrs now, engaged about a year while she finished her last year of college. It's a great and exciting thing to take such a big step with someone you love, congrats!

Big congrats Jen!! and great engagement stories everyone!

I proposed in a bowling alley. Now that may sound like the most un-romantic place to do it, but let me give you a little background info. We went bowling on our first date, and really hit it off (I even rolled 9 in a row, but choked on the tenth for a 266. I think it was my mad bowling skills that won her over https://ball-pythons.net/forums/imag...s/rolleyes.gif ). So when the time came to propose, I wanted it be a total surprise, and I choose the least likely place for the event to occur. I got a nice custom ring, and told her we were going to dinner and bowling for her birthday. I know the owner of the lanes we went to (bowled in leagues there for a few years), so i asked him the day before if he could have "Robin, will you marry me" scroll across the screen about halfway through our first game. I was so nervous, I couldn't even bowl, and she kinda knew something was up because of that. She is not one for public attention, and kinda freaked out when she saw it. I'm on one knee with the ring in hand, and all she can say is "you're kiddin right!?" in a somewhat annoyed voice, then kinda giggled and said "of course!" https://ball-pythons.net/forums/imag...es/biggrin.gif So it really was romantic and sentimental.

Anyway, let us know when he pops the question eh. I'm so excited for you!!https://ball-pythons.net/forums/imag...atar1650_6.gif .

-Evan

Ohhhh Gin!! No more peeking at his Ebay activities! You're gonna drive yourself nuts!! :hug:


My hubby's proposal wasn't a big surprise...it was pretty obvious what he was about to do...but he tried to make it a surprise and planned a really nice romantic dinner around it.

We'd dated off and on since high school..and finally through his last year of college. He was commissioned an officer in the AF and was going to move to Sacramento (we were in Dallas at the time) in a few months. So we didn't have a whole lot of time to dither about whether we should marry...LOL. I pretty much needed to know if he would take me with him or leave me when he left. He made it pretty clear he wouldn't leave me...but wouldn't commit to anything more than that.

A week or two later, he told me to dress for a special night out...and took me to Reunion Tower in Dallas. (A restaurant inside a giant ball at the top of a tower) We had a beautiful dinner that he was too nervous to eat........no proposal. After dinner, he suggested we go up to the bar/lounge for some after-dinner drinks. He doesn't drink...but I had a nice glass of wine......no proposal. Finally he decides we need to go out on the observation deck and look at the city. We walked around the whole deck three full times before he finally gave up trying to find a spot where there were no other people. LOL And then he got down on one knee and held up a box with a beautiful diamond ring and asked me to marry him. :love:

It's funny that even though I expected/hoped for him to propose that night....I was still at a loss for words! He said that was the longest 20 seconds of his life while I fumbled around trying to remember how to say "Yes!!"

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Congrats on soon to be engaged.

My proposal wasn't that elaborate at all, but it worked for the moment. I asked my wife to marry me, in a parking lot, in my bug. It was so not romantic, but it suited us well. I didn't have a ring or anything yet, that came later heh. We were engaged for 3 years before actually getting married. People were always asking us why we were waiting so long, and we just said that we were trying to save money and such and not rush into it and take our time. All that waiting sure did pay off though as we celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary on Oct. 5th. Good luck with all your wedding plans and your future together!:D

My husband and I were dating six years before he proposed. He's not the most romantic creature but he tries. He proposed on Valentines day, he walked into the den where I was on the computer, handed me the box and said, will you marry me?

It was actually pretty funny. We were engaged a year and a half and got married Aug 12th of this year.

Congrats on your find!! ;) Let us know when it all goes down!

Pete tok me to Johny Corenios (sp?) and just sat there say that he had something very important that he wanted to ask me but befor I answered i needed to think about the question. Then he asked me to rub a sugar packet on my nose... he did it like 5 times ... i was so PO at him that I almost walked out of the restrant then he finaly pulled out the box and this was inside

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I have an odd husband :rolleye2:

Rick's proposal to me isn't easy to describe on a "family" forum, but I'll try keep it PG-13. :D

We had been dating for about 3.5 years and both of us, I think, pretty knew that we would be together. I told him in the early summer that we needed to be engaged by Christmas (no pressure!), but it was enough to get us both motivated to move forward with figuring out details.

We shopped around for engagement rings and such and finally picked out what we (I) wanted from bluenile.com. Rick told me a couple days later that the stones we picked out had been sold and we'd need to wait until they had more like the ones we picked to become available. I was deflated, but *believed* him (har har har).

Anywho, we had gone out one night because I needed some new clothes, specifically new...um...*cough*...bras and panties. And as a general rule in our house, when you buy new clothes, you have to model them when you come home.

Soooo, I was modeling my new bras and panties when we got home and Rick came into the room holding something behind his back - I knew instantly he had been fibbing about the stones being sold and that he had the ring.

I don't really remember him asking to marry him or not before I...um...jumped his bones. :D

That was October 28th of 2004...and we are getting married in just over two weeks on October 28th! :carrot:

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I was just shopping ebay; turns out, my man is watching an auction for an Engagement Ring!!!!
I have been waiting him out; we've been together almost 6 years now :D
Now I just hope it's for me.. lol.. just kidding; I know it would be. I ain't letting on that I saw it though.

If you're married/engaged; how did your honey propose to you?

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Cheater cheater punkin eater!!

my hubby had just moved in with me (and my two kids) and said... "you know we should get a dog... the kids would love a dog" i replied, "getting a dog is a huge commitment and i'm not ready for THAT!"

he replied, "kinda like getting married eh? let's do both!"

we were married a few weeks later. in all, we never really dated. we were best friends for about a year and he was moving in with us (purely platonic) so we could all share a bigger house - since we spent so much time together (he rented a room in a house) and so the night before he moved in we had a talk about how we can never have a 'relationship' cause our friendship is too important and told each other why we needed to just stay friends. the next morning at 8am i called him and said, "it's too late" he said, "i agree, want to go get a coffee?" so he picked me up and i got into his car, smiled at him and said... "well i guess we are going to do this then?" (meaning a relationship) and he said, "i don't think we have a choice."

later that day we moved in his stuff and he proposed a couple days later... and we've been married for 8 years now and i love him sooooooooo much. we have a great marriage. so much for long engagements eh? LOL

Congratulations, Gin!:sunny:

These stories are all (most of them) romantic. I think when I find the right girl, and pop the question, I want to do something funny. Maybe get completely hammered... swallow the ring... have her take care of me... and then throw the ring up on her, and say "Where the hell did that come from?"... Yeah, maybe this wouldn't be funny as I first thought. I thought of it in two minutes. Just imagine what I could think of with more time!!

it frightens us shaffer... it frightens us a lot!

lol
Awesome stories everyone! :) Anyone have pictures??

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lol
Awesome stories everyone! :) Anyone have pictures??

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of my vomit?

Congrats, Jen!!!

I wish I had a cool story for you. Karen and I had been best friends for so long that when we finally made it official engagement was basically assumed. :) We went shopping for rings together rather than any exciting surprises. I think after all the drama and craziness beforehand, we were all excitement-ed out, lol. :rolleyes: